Britney Spears is not playing around. The singerโs lawyer has been denied a request to have her father, Jamie Spears, immediately removed as her co-conservator, despite alleging the pop superstar is โafraidโ of him.
Sam Ingham made the bold statement in a Los Angeles court hearing conducted via phone on Tuesday (November 10, 2020), claiming the โGimme Moreโ hitmaker is refusing to return to the stage until Jamie Spears steps down from overseeing her affairs.
โMy client has informed me that she is afraid of her father,โ Ingham told Judge Brenda Penny.
โShe also stated that she will not perform as long as her father is in charge of her career. We are really at a crossroads.โ

Jamieโs legal representative, Vivian Lee Thoreen, challenged the remarks and accused Ingham of preventing Britney from talking to her dad, according to Us Weekly.
Meanwhile, Britneyโs mother Lynne Spears also had her attorney, Gladstone Jones, present for the hearing, during which it was revealed she had been urging her ex-husband Jamie to relinquish his role in the conservatorship so he can โbe a part ofโ Britneyโs life again.
โIt has broken Lynneโs heart to watch that this has come to this pointโฆ (sic),โ Jones said. โLynne believes the time is now to start fresh given the circumstance of Britneyโs request.โ

Spearsโ bid to remove her father James Spears from the conservatorship of her estate has suffered a temporary setback with a Los Angeles court declining the application.
James Spears has been her co-conservator since 2008, when the singer suffered a very public breakdown. He became sole conservator in 2019 after attorney Andrew Wallet resigned from his co-conservatorship.
In a hearing on Tuesday, Los Angeles superior court judge Brenda Penny declined to suspend James Spears from his conservatorship, though she did not rule out future petitions for his removal or suspension.